“…21 In contrast, DB hyphenated to structure elucidation techniques, such as NMR, IR, and high-resolution (HR)MS, gives the impression of being instrumentally simple, time-saving, powerful in visual interpretation, applicable for diverse biological/biochemical/ chemical assays, and capable of high sample throughput and screening in parallel. [9][10][11][12]22 The planar chromatogram is directly subjected to biological/biochemical/chemical assays, and thus the correlation of chromatogram and bioautogram, which are two images taken of the same plate, is much easier if compared to HPLC-BCD or GC-BCD. Via HPTLC-UV/vis/ FLD-EDA-(HR)MS/NMR/IR, comprehensive chromatographic, spectroscopic/-metric, bioprofiling, and bioquantitative information of known and unknown bioactive compounds is obtainable in varying, complex sample matrixes, analyzed in parallel on the same plate in a single run.…”